[Blindtlk] Moon and 'sticky' Braille (was RE: Grade 3 Braille)

[Judy Jones]

Very fascinating.  I have never been to the UK, although my parents were 
military.  The only ones that got to go were my dad when he had a TDY, and, 
believe it or not, our dog.  When we had a nonstop back stateside, he had a 
layover and a 30 minute dog walk before the next leg of the flight.  My 
husband has always wanted to visit the UK.  We live in Twin Falls, Idaho and 
love it here.

I was never sure if moon type was braille or large print.  Is it raised 
print letters?

Thanks.  Have a good day.

Judy


-----Original Message----- 
From: Edward Green via blindtlk
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 11:40 AM
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Cc: Edward Green
Subject: [Blindtlk] Moon and 'sticky' Braille (was RE: Grade 3 Braille)

Hi Judy,

Yes, Moon came from the UK.  It was one of a number of similar tactile
representations around in the 19th century, until Braille ended up
predominating.  I'm from the UK, and there was an interesting exhibition in
London a year or so ago where many of these different systems were on
display.

Happily material isn't produced using the sticky dots any more.  I think the
material tended to spoil/fade more than material produced using more
conventional methods.

I also lived in Germany for a while.  I never mastered fully contracted
German Braille, though am familiar with some of the contractions for
frequently used letter combinations such as the ones you mention.

Cheers,

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Judy Jones
via blindtlk
Sent: 22 June 2015 03:14
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Cc: Judy Jones
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Grade 3 Braille

Isn't the moon type out of England?

Have never seen it.

II have seen brailled materials from the UK, and rather than having
punctured dots, there are tiny glue dots affixed to the page.  They can be
peeled off with a fingernail, too.  I don't know if they are producing books
the same way anymore, but thought it was fascinating.

We used to live in Germany, and the German cell was slightly larger,
although not jumbo braille.

They had very interesting letter combinations native to their language, such
as E-I sign, I-e, E-U, A-U, and the umlauted letters had their own braille
characters.

Judy


-----Original Message-----
From: Ericka via blindtlk
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 7:54 PM
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Cc: dotwriter1 at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Grade 3 Braille

Hi everybody! Since we've been discussing all kinds of braille, I was
wondering if anybody actually knows how to read moon type braille. I heard
about it but never seen it. I'm not a keen braille user yet. I'm working on
reading grade 1 well. It's just fascinating that you would read with
textures instead of dots. Sounds slow but interesting. Like you Judy, I like
history so this is all pretty interesting to me.

Ericka
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> On Jun 21, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Szostak, Christine via blindtlk
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> Wow, I wish I had learned it. I have never, before today, even heard
> of this. I could see how it could really increase your speed. Now if I
> could just get my students to try to use printed short-hand when
> taking notes, perhaps lectures could go just a little faster:)!
> Have a wonderful week all!
> Chris
>
> Dr. Christine M. Szostak
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> Department of Social Sciences
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